The Scale Invariance of Fractals

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The thing about fractals that makes them so beautiful and so interesting is no matter how far in you go, they always look the same. The reason a lot of people have seen the tree and the lung fractal is because mathematically, when you create a structure like this, it has to follow these rules. It's not infinite, but the mathematical expressions of fractals are infinite. Just keep going and it just keeps giving you the same stuff. Now that applies to complexity in part because remember I said that you know 20 ants can make an ant colony, 200 ants, 2000 ants,. Same principles apply in part because it's related to chaos.

Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Through his scientific research, he has been a pioneer of adult stem cell plasticity and the anatomy of the human interstitium. Dr. Theise’s studies in complexity theory have led to interdisciplinary collaborations in fields such as integrative medicine, consciousness studies, and science-religion dialogue.

Complexity theory addresses the mysteries that animate science, philosophy, and metaphysics: how this teeming array of existence, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, is in fact a seamless living whole and what our place, as conscious beings, is within it. Physician, scientist, and philosopher Neil Theise makes accessible this “theory of being,” one of the pillars of modern science, and its holistic view of human existence.

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